Simon Goodwin

Now, you only need to look back at the likes of Mark Williams when he was at Richmond alongside Hardwick when they went on to their winning run of flags.

Melbourne, of course, is another with Paul Roos assisting Simon Goodwin, guiding the reins.

And after him, Mark Williams again, and then Alan Richardson in a dedicated director of coaching role.

Of course, Melbourne went on to win that flag in 2021.

So on the weekend, you can go out.

So the 1964 Premiership jumper, the famous Premiership at Melbourne, of course, before the famous Norm Smith cursor came over the club the year after and there was that famous spat and that famous drought not broken until 2021, of course, with Max Gorn and Simon Goodwin's team.

That jumper, what would you pay for it? It is a beautiful piece of memorabilia.

They're...

I'm sure he's going to be directing the coaches, but to be actually as an assistant coach, would that have made a difference, you think, Dwayne? Well,

he's not going to not help if Adam Uza asks, you know, what do you think I should do structurally with my centre square starting four? It's a bit like Simon Goodwin at the Swans.

I mean, I'm sure there's plenty of things that Simon Goodwin contributes when it comes to the nous about the game.

So, I mean, it's not like he's divorcing himself from any assistant coach's ideology.

Spiros, he's there.

David Evans at the time was chairman.

And then, you know, James Heard, Bonner Thompson, Simon Goodwin, Hayden Skipworth, you know, and the board members.

And then to go through that.

So then...

Right.

And obviously, you know, there's other reasons behind that as well in that what other options do people have when, you know, when Simon Goodwin gets sacked, He's got a job as an assistant at Sydney, you know, ready and waiting.

Someone will take an assistant coach.

It wasn't the way things were run then.

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Uh, Simon Goodwin was big on learnings apparently, the former coach.

Oh, learnings?

Yeah, learnings.

So Dean Cox, senior coach, and really came on, uh, this season, particularly towards the back end, 18 and five.

For the year, Simon Goodwin was, was added as director of coaching and performance.

A great club figure in Brett Kirk as the head of wellbeing and player development.

Liam Cameron, Leon Cameron rather, is the head of football.

Absolutely agree with that.

And there's just a lot of people that know what they're doing in that football club.

When you look at the likes of Leon Cameron, experience, Simon Goodwin, experience, um, Brett Kirk, experience, Matthew Pavlich, experience.

So yeah, it, it, it gets a lot of ticks.

They're, they're going through a proper process to, to find the replacement for Chris Fagan.

Sammy, have you got a gut feel? Do, do you think a, a, a, a, an Adam Simpson, a, a Simon Goodwin, a Nathan Buckley, do, do you think they're genuinely going to be contenders? 'Cause we've got this situation where it feels like once the, once the senior guy gets a sense that they're not looking really-

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Yeah.

And I think because of the age demographic of, of the Brisbane team, there's still lots of good footy ahead of this group.

That's what would make it really appealing for, for someone, uh, that has coached premierships before, like Adam Simpson and Simon Goodwin.

Anyhow, we'll have to wait and see.

They didn't have any senior heads around them to support them, uh, as an ex- inexperienced coach, which I do think you need.

You look at other teams, you know, teams that have brought on, you know, even, uh, you think back to Paul Roos, you know, Simon Goodwin even, he's currently at, uh, Sydney.

Players of that, uh, that ilk that have been senior coaches in their own right.

Whether or not they've been successful or not, different story.